WATCH: McConnell equates his ancestors’ slave ownership to Obama’s
The Kentucky Republican said Tuesday that he and former President Barack Obama have opposed reparations, and "both are the descendent of slave owners."…
Amy McGrath is running for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat
McGrath is a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky last year.
McConnell opposes efforts to revive cost-of-living raise for lawmakers
Lawmakers are supposed to get an automatic inflationary increase each year but it has been blocked since 2009.
House, Senate leaders to meet with Trump on Iran
The briefing comes after Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. surveillance drone.
Top leaders of both parties in Congress made better-than-expected progress Tuesday on two must-do items on the legislative agenda: averting automatic budget cuts and meeting a deadline later this year to increase the government's borrowing limit.
The deal comes after the panel subpoenaed the president's eldest son to discuss answers Donald Trump Jr. gave the panel's staff in a 2017 interview.
Warren said that because of a Justice Department opinion that a sitting president can't be indicted, the only way to the hold the president accountable is to initiate impeachment.
McConnell is set to outline how special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation went on for two years and the "exhaustive" probe is now complete.
The proposed rules change would limit debate on most nominees to two hours instead of the 30 hours now required. Cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court nominations, and appeals court judges would be exempted from the new rules.
